When asked by Politico about his possible presidential campaign, Greene responds, “Maybe. I’ll have to see.”

Greene confirmed to Politico that he was the one who anonymously inquired about the cost of the presidential filing fee. The state hasn’t set an amount for the 2012 contest, but in 2008, South Carolina’s presidential filing fee was $2,500.

Greene is currently an unemployed veteran facing misdemeanor and felony charges for an incident that happened in Nov. 2009, which might complicate raising the bid money.

However, he came up with the $10,000 filing fee in 2010 to run for Senate without campaigning in the primary and without raising money for his Senate bid before the nomination.

Nancy Pelosi – Nancy Pelosi is struggling to stand her ground as the effects of last week’s Democratic debacle shift the political earth beneath her feet.

Pelosi announced Friday that she’s running for minority leader in the new Congress, and her election still seems on track. But a movement by conservative Blue Dogs to block her ascent has picked up support from some liberals and even a handful of longtime Pelosi allies, who question whether she is the best person to lead the battered party in the House. At least 15 Democrats have said publicly that they have lost faith in her ability to lead — a number backed up by as many as two dozen more who are indicating the same thing privately, while others haven’t yet taken sides.

Liberal Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) sent a letter to colleagues asking them to support a plan to forestall leadership elections until December — a clear effort to give the anti-Pelosi forces time to coalesce. Democratic leaders plan to go forward with the leadership contests Nov. 17, according to sources familiar with a Wednesday afternoon conference call.

“Elections matter, and the messages they send matter,” Kaptur told POLITICO Wednesday — though she declined to say whether she would vote for or against Pelosi.

Fellow Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, a longtime Pelosi ally and protege of former Pelosi confidant Rep. John P. Murtha, told the Youngstown Business Journal that he’s not sure how long he needs to be loyal to the outgoing speaker.

“We had some really good, substantive things to talk about that we didn’t talk about and there’s plenty of blame to go around. She’s obviously in charge so she needs to take the brunt of the responsibility for it,” he said. “I was brought up to be loyal to people who helped you and I want to be — but at the expense of what? I think we have to sit down as a Democratic Caucus in D.C. and ask what direction are we going in.”

Even the New York Times’ editorial page has called on Pelosi to step aside.

For all the Democratic griping — and fears that Pelosi could destroy Democratic electoral chances in 2012 — no one has yet stepped forward to run against her, another reason she’s still the odds-on favorite to win the job.

But it should come as no surprise that Pelosi is facing challenges to her authority: She got whacked with a 60-seat loss, $65 million in commercials featuring her in districts across the country, and a minimum two-year stretch in the minority.

If she’s able to stay atop the Democratic Caucus, she won’t be in control of it — at least not the way she used to be. The drip-drip-drip of public defectors demonstrates that some of her troops no longer fear the repercussions of challenging her authority. And some clearly see political benefit in publicly thumbing their nose at the unpopular outgoing speaker.

But on the Wednesday conference call, Pelosi asked her colleagues whether there was any sense in delaying the votes – as suggested by DeFazio and Kaptur — and got a uniform response that there is no reason to postpone them, according to one source who noted it’s in the interests of the current leadership team to move fast.